EMAIL: weav9467@cs.uidaho.edu
NAME: Tim Weaver
TOPIC: Space
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
RENDERER USED: Povray 3.0 for Linux
TOOLS USED: None
RENDER TIME:2 hours 13 minute 37 second.
HARDWARE USED: 486 DX-4 100MHZ
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
	This is a rendering of my girlfriend's lava lamp.  It is sitting on a
desk next to a window with a great view of outer space, and a nice serene blue
and green planet.  A nice reminder of home for the traveler.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
	I have only been using Povray for a short while, and I decided that I
would like to play with glass textures and reflections.  I started out with the
lava lamp.  It is just a bunch of cones, blobs, and spheres, merged, unioned,
and differenced.  The glass texture is a good representation of the real glass,
expecally the way it distorts the objects behind it.  I decided later to put it
in some sort of scene, and this was the result.  It was hard deciding on an
object for the left side of the scene.  I went from nothing, to a floating
lamp, to a lamp that looked like a barbell, etc...   Finally my girlfriend came
up with the idea of the pendulum "clacker".